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Kleese van Dam et al. 2024
Kleese van Dam, K., A. Schlosser, J. Schmutz, B. Bond-Lamberty, K. Fangan, , S. Gregurick, D. Niyogi, D. Segre, and P. Weisenhorn, 2024: A Unified Data Infrastructure for Biological and Environmental Research: A Report from the BER Advisory Committee. DOE/SC-0214. U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Program, doi:10.2172/2331276.
The Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science supports large-scale data generation efforts across its two divisions: Biological Systems Science and Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences. These efforts include user facilities in atmospheric radiation measurements, genomics, metabolomics, proteomics, compute, and imaging. In addition, BER supports the development of plant-based fuels; research in biosystems design, environmental microbiomes, and atmospheric systems; energy flux monitoring; climate-based ecosystem experiments; pathogen biopreparedness; and modeling of climate, urban interfaces, and interactions between people and energy resources. For data access, BER supports community data services at its user facilities, along with specialized data initiatives for Earth and environmental science, climate modeling, genomic and microbial analysis, and multi-sector dynamics modeling.
In October 2022, the BER Advisory Committee (BERAC) received a charge letter from the DOE Office of Science director requesting a review of existing capabilities in data management and infrastructure relevant to BER science. The charge also requested a recommended strategy for next-generation data management and analysis within a unified framework. Further goals included identifying new science opportunities that could be enabled by increased integration of BER's facilities while considering advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML). The charge asked BERAC to examine synergistic investments within DOE and at other agencies and the impact of a more unified data infrastructure on the scientific workforce. To address these goals, the appointed subcommittee established five working groups focusing on (1) environmental science; (2) biological science; (3) diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility; (4) BER data services; and (5) unified data infrastructure and artificial intelligence. The subcommittee organized a two-day virtual community workshop that included discussions on new unified data infrastructure-enabled science opportunities, barriers to broader inclusion of minorities, support for early career scientists, and potential unified data infrastructure solutions for BER.
Several science opportunities emerged during subcommittee discussions and workshop breakouts. These crosscutting opportunities apply across much of BER's biological and environmental sciences and represent areas in which the program can significantly impact efforts to understand and manipulate natural and managed resource systems to meet DOE goals. The first opportunity is to leverage decades of collected environmental and biological data to predict biological systems under realistic field conditions at multiple scales. A second opportunity is to develop and test multiscale models that incorporate environment-dependent biological system variables in high resolution. A final opportunity is to make BER data accessible, inclusive, and usable by the broader community. Addressing these challenges will require DOE to encourage shareable, coordinated data collection with standards for field data; develop curated, standardized, and open datasets that can enable multiscale modeling; and make field, environmental, variation, and climate data accessible to support diversity, equity, and inclusion goals.
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@misc{kl08000i,
author={Kleese van Dam, K. and Schlosser, A. and Schmutz, J. and Bond-Lamberty, B. and Fangan, K. and Fridlind, A. M. and Gregurick, S. and Niyogi, D. and Segre, D. and Weisenhorn, P.},
title={A Unified Data Infrastructure for Biological and Environmental Research: A Report from the BER Advisory Committee},
year={2024},
publisher={U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Program},
doi={10.2172/2331276},
}
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TY - RPRT ID - kl08000i AU - Kleese van Dam, K. AU - Schlosser, A. AU - Schmutz, J. AU - Bond-Lamberty, B. AU - Fangan, K. AU - Fridlind, A. M. AU - Gregurick, S. AU - Niyogi, D. AU - Segre, D. AU - Weisenhorn, P. PY - 2024 BT - A Unified Data Infrastructure for Biological and Environmental Research: A Report from the BER Advisory Committee DO - 10.2172/2331276 PB - U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Program ER -
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